Digital by Default

Digital by Default

CorridorCamp16

aka #UKGC16 I have a little confession. I am terrible at BarCamps. Really bad at them. I have attended more than my share of them over the years and 100% believe they are brilliant, mind-altering, status quo challenging necessities for our community. I am just rubbish at them. Saturday was my sixth Govcamp I think — I…

January 24, 2016
whither Web of Words

I’ve been circling around an idea for an event about blogs and blogging for a couple of years now. I wrote about it back in early 2014 and despite some shenanigans have managed to hold on to the domain webofwords.org for even longer. 2015 seemed like a bit of a comeback for individuals publishing on…

January 22, 2016
Farewell old friends (reunited)

So Friends Reunited is closing down. Really did anyone really know it was still going? It had long since been superseded in the public consciousness by Facebook — hell probably even by Peach. I remember happier times for the Friends though. At the turn of the naughties before social media was anything more than a twinkle in…

January 19, 2016
More Tigger than Tiger

Andrew Greenway has written an interesting post in defence of the ‘senior civil service’. I don’t have much to say directly about what he has written — my experience with the SCS is primarily limited to those I know at ONS and a few I’ve known and know at GDS. Even with that narrow a perspective I…

January 13, 2016
Innovate or sigh: are ‘labs’ helpful?

The ONS was in the news again recently and while the website got away unscathed for a change it didn’t make for comfortable reading. The criticism from Andrew Tyrie, the chairman of the Treasury select committee, follows on from the initial findings of the Bean Review into Economic Statistics which while even handed was itself…

January 9, 2016